Astronomers unveil a distant protogalaxy connected to the cosmic web
Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - 15:00
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers have discovered a giant swirling disk of gas 10 billion light-years away -- a galaxy-in-the-making that is actively being fed cool primordial gas tracing back to the Big Bang. The finding provides the strongest observational support yet for what is known as the cold-flow model of galaxy formation.